Category: Study Guide
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Draw Upon the Spiritual Experience of Don Bosco
In honor of Don Bosco’s Feast day, and in line with this years study theme in preparation for the celebration of the bicentenary of Don Bosco’s Birth (16 August 2015), we have put together this collection of articles from the Journal of Salesian Studies. We invite you, then, to take a few moments in the…
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Pedagogy: Study Guide, Jan 2013
This issue of “Getting to Know Don Bosco” delves deep into this years study of Don Bosco’s pedagogy. First, Fr. John Roche bridges December’s issue and the current issue, and points out key connections. We are blessed to have received permission to publish the main article, which is a translation of Chapter IX of Fr.…
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Pedagogy: Study Guide, Dec 2012
This issue of “Getting to Know Don Bosco” is packed with rich insights. We begin with insights from this November’s gathering of Salesian scholars in Turin, we get a sneak preview of what is to come in future study guides that focus on Don Bosco’s spirituality. Then Fr. Giuseppe Buccellato shares a diagram he made that outlines…
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Don Bosco: Educator
PDF – DB Study Guide – October 2012 As we move into our second year of studying our Founder, Don Bosco, we focus on his Educational Methodology. We call upon the work of Fr. Jack Finnegan, a Salesian scholar from Dublin, who launched this year’s study of Don Bosco by leading the USA Western Province in…
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Core Values
PDF – DB Study Guide – June & July 2012 Concluding a year of examining Don Bosco as a man of his times, we consider the core values of his life. Salesian Themes from Don Bosco’s Life. For a Salesian the mission is a threefold path of spiritual life… …The access offered everyday for achieving perfection;…
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Apologetics
PDF – DB Study Guide – April & May 2012 Don Bosco’s Place in History: Apologetics & Catholic Faith Don Bosco’s Defense of the Church in his Anti-Waldensian apologetic The idea of writing a history of the Church may have occurred to Don Bosco at the Convitto, when he was engaged in catechizing his young people on…
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Lenten Special: The Last Things, Death, Evil, and Sin
PDF – DB Study Guide – March 2012 As we enter into Lent, this issue of the Don Bosco Study Guide will look at Don Bosco’s religiosity and his pivotal understanding of the last things, death, evil, and sin. It is difficult to confine a study of Don Bosco’s educational system to a few topics. The approach to …
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Political Climate of Don Bosco’s Day
PDF – DB Study Guide – February 2012 This issue looks at stages of Don Bosco’s lived experience, his view of the Vow of Obedience, & Important political figures in Don Bosco’s times. For the late Fr. Michael Ribotta, and investigation into the figure of Don Bosco would be incomplete without a thorough understanding of the…
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The Gift of Understanding
PDF – DB Study Guide – January 2012 This issue of the Don Bosco Study Guide continues to look at the person of Don Bosco. We begin with reflections written by the great Salesian historian Fr. Pietro Stella. Fr. Stella gave us a critical historical analysis of Don Bosco from many vantage points. We will summarize Fr. Stella’s examination of…